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TC8 is one of IFIP's most active committees. This book focusses on
information systems support for organisations looking particularly
at business process reengineering, co-operation between
organisations and support for improved work flow in organisations.
These are topical subjects and will appeal to both business and
research communities.
This book presents a selection of subjects which the authors deem
to be important for information systems engineers. The book is
intended for introductory teaching. We have tried to write the book
in such a way that students with only fragmented knowledge of
computers are able to read the book without too many difficulties.
Students who have had only an intro ductory course in computer
programming should be able to read most of the book. We have tried
to achieve simplicity without compromising on depth in our
discussions of the various aspects of information systems
engineering. So it is our hope that also those who have deeper
knowledge in computing may find pleasure in reading parts of the
book. The writing of a textbook is a major undertaking for its
authors. One is quite often forced to reexamine truisms in the
subject area, and must be prepared to reevaluate one's opinions and
priorities as one learns more. In particular this is so in new
fields, where formalisms have been scarcely used, and where
consensus has not yet emerged either on what constitutes the
subject area or on how practical problems within the field shall be
approached. Contemporary practice in computer applications is
confronted with an increasingly complex world, both in a technical
sense and in the complexity of problems that are solved by
computer."
Computing in the Nordic countries started in late 1940s mainly as
an engineering activity to build computing devices to perform
mathematical calculations and assist mathematicians and engineers
in scientific problem solving. The early computers of the Nordic
countries emerged during the 1950s and had names like BARK, BESK,
DASK, SMIL, SARA, ESKO, and NUSSE. Each of them became a nucleus in
institutes and centres for mathematical computations programmed and
used by highly qualified professionals. However, one should not
forget the punched-card machine technology at this time that had
existed for several decades. In addition, we have a Nordic name,
namely Frederik Rosing Bull, contributing to the fundaments of
punched card technology and forming the French company Bull.
Commercial products such as FACIT EDB and SAAB D20-series computers
in Sweden, the Danish GIER computer, the Nokia MIKKO computer in
Finland, as well as the computers of Norsk Data in Norway followed
the early computers. In many cases, however, companies and
institutions did not further develop or exploit Nordic computing
hardware, even though it exhibited technical advantages.
Consequently, in the 1970s, US computers, primarily from IBM,
flooded the Nordic market.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2001, held in Tokohama, Japan, in November 2001.The 45 revised full papers presented together with three keynote presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 197 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on spatial databases, spatio-temporal databases, XML, information modeling, database design, data integration, data warehouse, UML, conceptual models, systems design, method reengineering and video databases, workflows, web information systems, applications, and software engineering.
TC8 is one of IFIP's most active committees. This book focusses on
information systems support for organisations looking particularly
at business process reengineering, co-operation between
organisations and support for improved work flow in organisations.
These are topical subjects and will appeal to both business and
research communities.
CAiSE '91, held at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in May
1991, is the third in a series of conferences on advanced
information systems engineering. The call for papers for CAiSE '91
was given a wide international distribution. The programme
committee was chosen from very well reputed researchers in the
international information systems engineering community, as well as
key professionals in European industrial and consultant companies.
The number and quality of papers submitted was very satisfactory,
and 29 papers were selected for publication in this volume.
The Nordic Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
(CAiSE) is an annual international conference for users, developers
and researchers of information systems technology and methodology.
A distinctive characteristic of the CAiSE conference series is the
objective to appeal to advanced practitioners as well as to
researchers, and to promote communication between the two groups.
In this second CAiSE conference, the program was divided into two
types of sessions that were not run in parallel: Technical Paper
sessions, with formally reviewed technical papers, and Practice and
Experience sessions, with invited speakers and panel discussions.
The proceedings include the formally reviewed technical papers and
abstracts of the invited presentations. The technical papers
present important international (mainly European) work in
Information Systems Engineering within such areas as conceptual
modelling, prototyping, requirements engineering, design support,
software process modelling, tool design, and tool experiences. The
abstracts of invited speakers' presentations give an indication of
current best industrial practice.
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